Brainy Joshua

I have been wanting to introduce books to Joshua but has been postponing it for a couple of months now. So with an extra cash in hand, had a quick tour at SM Makati 5 minutes before their closing time. Saw this Brainy Baby 4-pack board books and I immediately made my way to the counters area.When I arrived here at work, I immediately checked online as how much it is in dollars and to my surprise, it's more expensive. With the current conversion of $1 to P44, the books would cost P440 plus tax if purchased in the US while I bought mine at P275 only. Cheap eh? Great buy, you think?

Joshua's milestones

I haven't blogged about my kid's milestones. I can't remember the exact month as to when he learned this and that. Blame it all on my anesthesia, lol! So I would just share it in random.

• Loved to sing. First song he learned is the I Love You, You Love Me from Barney. I tell you, he can carry the tune kahit na garble words lang lumalabas sa bibig nya.
• Learned to say his name before he turned two. That is the short line Mi nem is tarl dusha emamem t odez (My name is Carl Joshua Emmanuelle C. Moldez)
• Learned to count one to ten months after he turned one.
• Learned to sing ABC after memorizing one to ten.
• Learned to say words if it's with kalokohan. Blame it all to Jojo.
• Knew how to play pretend. He would close his fist and pretend to lick it and says ice chim (ice cream). He would put something imaginary on my mouth and says ang ang (anghang), mis (tamis/panis), lalat (alat).
• Knew some parts of his body like ulo (head), inong (ilong), mata (eye), enga (ear), may (hand), paa (foot), nis (knees), mout (mouth), tyan (tummy).
• Loves to write. Says lat (write) if he wants to write. He would then get a pen and paper and write and says tircle (circle).
• He knew some animals and their sounds like fishda (fish), tichen (chicken and it's sound ah ah oh), dongdong (dog and it's sound aw aw), miming (cat and it's sound meow).
• Says bawal if my brother offers him softdrinks. He still doesn't drink softdrinks nor eat chips yet. I'm sticking to my preference that he'll have his taste of those once he turns seven.
  
• Loves to eat his current favorite breakfast meal uu crush (koko krunch) with fresh milk on it.
  

Now, the only thing that I am still unsuccessful to teach my son is to speak English. I often caught my mom speaking to him in Ilocano to my husband's dismay. He still doesn't know how to speak clearly daw then it'll be mixed up with other dialects. He knew Yes/No before but it was changed to Opo/Hindi/Ayaw now. I still talked to him in English, he often understands it but still responds in Tagalog. How can I be successful on this kaya? Any tips to Mommies with English-speaking kid, Peachy, Joy, Abie and Jane?

Update to my 201 file

Last Tuesday morning, I received my contract of regularization. I almost didn't signed it as my basic salary was still the same and so was my position. I told them that my boss has confirmed to me about my increase and changed in position. They told me that they already knew about it and that our manager has not yet approved it. So with a heavy heart, I signed the contract. Next thing I did was to call my boss telling him about the contract. He told me that he'll fix it once he arrived to work. True to his words, I received an update to my employment contract with my new position and salary. I have the best boss here. Thank you so much! Kudos to you Sir!

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